She probably wants the men to be intimidated by her. I suspect that she is far from wanting a home and family. When she wants a man to stick around after the sex is over, she can always try out being nice to them and see if they will stay. But that would be "Settling for one man"...Hurgh!

She is so good in that role, that I've come to think of her as that character from Juniper Creek. When I see her out of that character, it is somewhat of a shock. For example, the photos at the link made me think, "Gee, why is this nice Mormon girl slutting it up?"

Chloe Sevigny? The girl who played Jake Gyllenhall's girlfriend / wife in "Zodiac?"

Elvis H. Presley on a pogo stick, any man (and I use the term loosely) intimidated by that mousy, washed-out, third-generation photocopy of Eve Plumb would probably dissolve into a puddle of translucent goo just by looking sideways at a picture of Bette Davis.

Never heard of her either. I agree with rhhardin, who needs that? Men who can get good looking women have plenty of choices and they may stick around long enough to stick it in, but intimidated? Not impressed probably.

Chloe Sevigny was great in the best movie ever made about what it is like hanging out in a neighborhood bar. "Trees Lounge" which was written and directed by Steve Buscemi. It is the real deal. All the boredom and crazyness and weird situations you get into are prefectly realized.

She plays a young girl who is really into Steve's character who is a loser but who is very popular at the bar. Lots of great character actors like Carol Kane, Debi Mazer and the dude who plays Bobby on Sons of Anarchy.

There is one scene where this old drunk guy who was always spouting nonsense didn't show up at the bar. They were all freaked out because he was there every day in the same seat ordering the same drinks until he staggered out at closing time. When he stopped showing out they were freaked. They wouldn't let anybody sit in his seat. But nobody had his real name or a number to call or a way to get in touch with him as I recall. He was there but he wasn't really there.

Coffey guy...I would trade you one Ann Althouse celebrity card for ten of Chloe what's her name's cards, but that would not be a fair to me. Women are judged by their minds and their fun personalities more than by their thin body types. Thin women are a synonym for weak and helpless women. You can have all of those types, and I will stick with a strong woman any day.

She took a big risk some years ago in a movie scene that I think will follow her for the rest of her career.

But that won't be that long. Most leading actresses' careers end while they're in their early 40s. Unless they're making movies about how older chicks can still attract men. But most likely her career will be over in five years or so.

Unless she becomes a character actress like Alice Ghostley, Nancy Kulp, or the woman who played the maid in The Brady Bunch.

Well with her very skinny body type she will have a long career playing the sex-crazed drug addled mom's of major characters in sitcoms who hit on the unsuspecting husbands.Like Annie Potts who did that same character in "Men in Trees", "2 and a Half Men" and a couple other shows with men in the title I think.

She's got great legs, I'll say that for her. She's a favorite of the Fug Girls due to her bizarre outfits. Does she fit the "homely actress who may play a beautiful woman on screen" Althouse category (of a few days ago)? I haven't seen her in any movies, athough I did see Zodiac and have no memory of her in it.

She's great in Big Love, that's for sure. But she's very homely-looking in it, due to the patterned Mormon dresses. Seriously, men are intimated by her incredible career, talent, success, etc? She's reading too much of her own publicity. Brangelina she ain't.

Perhaps the angst in Chloe springs from men wising up that she only wants to use them for a one night stand. The less experienced men would fall for her considerable "I am available" seductiveness. The men she is meeting lately may be smart enough not to harm themselves with that. Life is a bitch and then people discover that you are one. Hurgh!

Thank you, Ann. I was wondering if anyone who really watched Big Love knew that Nikki is just a horrible person, that is why we all love her. Chloe is just perfect in the role, now I understand this may not be much of a stretch for her. Hmmm.

I know who she is, but I never bothered to form an opinion one way or another. Perhaps that's why she's not a star. At least the writer cared enough about her to be repelled by her. I don't have an opinion on Jaime Pressly either, but I would much rather be intimidated by her.

""I want to be worshipped,...." I think I see the problem with this lady already. "Good luck with that" is The Macho Response."

I strongly disagree. That may be "The Macho Response," but it is *not* the macho response. The macho response is to see the opening in the paradox of wanting both to be worshipped and to be ignored. Weak men are frightened off, and the real man is the one who can solve that puzzle and get to her. Do not be an ordinary man who gives up in the presence of a strong, complicated woman. She's not really saying you must worship her. She's posing a riddle to screen out the lesser men.

There was a recent Vanity Fair article about Grace Kelly. According to the article, the rumours about her having love affairs with all her leading men were untrue. She was reasonably well behaved and had only a few affairs before marriage. I was diappointed to read it. It gave another dimension to the perfection of her beauty to think that a needy slut lurked just beneath the vestal robes. For all we know, maybe some studio publicist encouraged the rumours.

John just realize it is a character study. Not the typical movie I like with nude babes and exploding aliens. But it is so spot on about bar life that if you never hung out in one you won't have missed anything if you see this movie.

But that is the far as I can go in a review. For a more educated view you have to talk to blake or rc.

"How far we have fallen. We used to have Stella Stevens and Angie Dickensen and Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden and now we have to make do with the likes of Chloey Sevigny and Chloey Kardashian!"

To paraphrase Mort Sahl--"What's that tell us? Darwin was wrong."

Although, his joke was a comparision of the Founding Fathers to that year's current crop of National Government "Officials"--still rings true today.

I don't get this whole "intimidated" thing. I'm intimidated by the steroid freak bouncing at the local bar. I'm intimidated by, you know, mafia guys and big dogs. Who's intimidated by a 98 pound semi-famous actress?

Is "intimidated" really a simile for "don't want to stick around after the sex"? This reminds me of women who get together at Starbucks and tell each other they're not married because men are afraid of commitment. No, we're not afraid of commitment. We just don't want to commit to you.

So the Professor wants to be pursued as a complicated woman. Guess what, all women are complicated. The interested man's best bet to be there for the duration is to let her work out her own problems while offering her a diet of romance and respect for her intelligence in equal servings. Sooner or later Miss Complexity will figure out her own answers to plans to solve every complexity in her life, and then she will help the guy to enjoy a season of romance and love with her for being such a patient sweetheart. But Chloe seems to be of a far less complicated breed.

'She's not really saying you must worship her. She's posing a riddle to screen out the lesser men."

Oh, I get it. You mean like this:

President Obama meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?"

"Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."

Obama frowns. "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"

The Queen takes a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence riddle." The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?"

Tony Blair walks into the room. "Yes, my Queen?"

The Queen smiles. "Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?" Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answers, "That would be me."

"Yes! Very good," says the Queen.

Back in the White House, President Obama asks to speak with the Vice President Joe Biden. "Answer this for me. Your mother and your Father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," says Joe. "Let me get back to you on that one." Joe goes to his advisers and asks everyone, but none can give him an answer. Joe sees former President George Bush and took the opportunity to make him look stupid.

Joe looks around to see if anyone can overhear them, and he whispers, "George, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?"

The Vanity Fair article on Grace Kelly was written by a known Grace apologist. I ended up at it through a link of a Hollywood insider type who didn't buy into the meme of Grace Kelly as nymphomaniac. That person pointed out that the author of the VF article completely avoided several known facts, including statements by Grace Kelly herself. (The VF writer also used a lot of third party hearsay and avoided several eyewitness/contemporary accounts.) I stand by the meme that Grace Kelly was a slut (and am devastated that I'm not old enough to have worked on movies with her.)

On second thought, plenty of people can't look at a homely woman without wanting to tear her down either. It's a woman thing. Something about women makes people speculate in a particularly vicious way.

I have to disagree regarding the blowjob. A bad blowjob can be very uncomfortable.

It can be boring and sooner rather than later you will have to take their head off the hog and jerk it yourself. It can prove demeaning to the blower and time consuming for you. A maximum of 10 seconds will allow you to determine if the blow job is a good one or a bad one.

Don't start giving directions to the header in hopes that things will get better. It won't. Just take things in your own hands. I am an awful cock sucker.

Just so you know, the plot of Trees Lounge is about how a young girl wants to piss off her father by dating a totally inappropriate older loser guy. You know that never happens in real life right? Steve Buscemi's life in that movie is not any man's fantasy.

I will be happy to concede that the Jud Apatow movies are really fantasy wish fulfillment with no basis in reality much like any movie that features Sarah Jessica Horseface as a beautiful and sexy woman.

Unless of course she is as rumored going to play the love interest in the Seattle Slew bio-pic.

I sense that the women here do not realize how the meaning of the word "slut" has morphed into a term of endearment. Feminists claim that since men can brag about their sexual voracity, women should be allowed the same freedom. Such liberated women use the word "slut" in the same serio-ironic way that gays use "faggot" and blacks use the n-word. I also meant no disrespect when I called Grace Kelly a slut. Sluttiness implies a dimension other than propriety and respectability. If for all her regal beauty, she knew some trailer park moves, then more power to her. I'm grateful to Joe for restoring her reputation. Grace Kelly is a lot more interesting as a slut than as a prig.......Also thanks to Theo for posting such an accomplished performer. It is very rare that such a brassy blonde takes the trouble to hit all the right notes instead of just getting by on her looks.

How far we have fallen. We used to have Stella Stevens and Angie Dickensen and Elizabeth Montgomery and Barbara Eden and now we have to make do with the likes of Chloey Sevigny and Chloey Kardashian!

What a gyp!

Ugh!!! How I miss these beautiful and alluring women like Stevens and Dickensen. Eden and Montgomery were hot as hell. All the women of the 60's and 70's were and are my baseline for greatness and downright hotness!!!

This world of ours is always filled with amusing assumptions, like women, if they're the "right kind of woman" can have unlimited dates, and women of any age, regardless of how they look, can easily get herself a sexual partner.

Generally speaking, it is a guy making these claims. Present company excluded. ;)

On the other hand, I also admit that there are more and more women using this "Men are intimidated by me" nonsense.

You lost the plot again knox. Chloey plays a barely pubsecent lolita type who is trying out her cock teasing abilities on her sisters old boyfriend who is "safe" but wildly inappropriate and sure to infuriate her mom and dad. It would have been just as bad if she went after Samuel L Jackson who is also in the movie.

The guy who gives the great performance is the Bobby guy from Sons of Anarchy who plays this dude whose wife is forcing him to move to Long Island from the City and he hates it. So he is in the bar all day drinking and answering the phone and telling his wife he is working when he is just morose and sad at the bar. He ends up with Buscemi and two bims at his new house drinking and smoking pot until his wife calls him and he freaks out.

Well, to be fair, I haven't seen it, so there's probably a *lot* to the movie I'm not getting. But they could certainly move that plot point along with a less attractive actress, and they chose not to.